Judging by the number of vulnerabilities that continue to be found every freaking year due to easily preventable problems, it seems nobody has learned how to pr

Judging by the number of vulnerabilities that continue to be found every freaking year due to easily preventable problems, it seems nobody has learned how to program in C to this day. Yourself included. Having said that, Rust is a C++ replacement not a C replacement. The biggest selling point of C is being the thing every other language talks and running everywhere including embedded devices with crappy custom compilers. With both Rust and C++ you still need to write extern "C" wrappers which are suboptimal, even when partially automated, and neither runs everywhere.